25 Wash. 2d 402 - Hutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2016
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Custer v. McCutcheon · Smith v. Toman · Roche v. McDonald
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute creating a lien right for a definite length of time only, is something that is in addition to the cause of action or substantive right in question and is not a statute of limitations because it does not exist outside of the period of time during which it is conferred.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“After the expiration of six years from the date of the entry of any judgment . . . rendered in this state, it shall cease to he a lien . . . against the estate or person of the judgment debtor, and no suit, action or other proceeding shall ever be had on any judgment rendered in this state by which the lien or duration of such judgment, claim or demand, shall be extended or continued in force for any greater or longer period than six years from the date of the entry of the original judgment. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“after the expiration of ten years from the date of the entry of any judgment. . . rendered in this state, it shall cease to be a lien or charge against the estate or person of the judgment debtor. No suit, action or other proceeding shall ever be had on any judgment rendered in this state by which the hen shall be extended or continued in force for any greater or longer period than ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.